The Skeptic Metaphysicians: Spiritual Awakening & Quantum Spirituality

Why do some people get a message from a departed loved one, hear a voice that cracks a family mystery, or briefly touch “the light,” while others never do? And how would you tell a genuine supernatural experience from imagination or a mental health issue?

Will and Karen sit down with Dr. Frederick Woodard. He’s a licensed clinical psychologist and certified hypnotherapist with three master’s degrees in psychology and a PhD in clinical psychology, and he was named New England Paranormal Researcher of the Year in 2012. He spent years gathering firsthand accounts from ordinary people through a careful interview method built not to shape what they reported. What he found is a set of common threads that show up across supernatural experiences, along with two tests he uses to decide whether a case is real.

In this episode you’ll hear:
The dying grandfather who woke up and talked about “two kids” calling him Grandpa, and the family secret that explained it
How a voice in a New Hampshire library led Dr. Woodard to a land deed that solved a genealogy dead end
A father who came back to tell his daughter where the missing insurance papers were hidden
His two markers of a genuine experience: something perceived inside later shows up in the real world, and the person is transformed by it
How he separates real experiences from psychosis, and why he rules out drugs and alcohol in every case
Who the “invisible beings” around us might be, and why most come to help rather than linger
Why hypnosis and meditation are closer than most people think, and how he learned to fully quiet his mind
The one trait the experiencers share: mental, emotional and spiritual flexibility (“a bendy mind, not a bendy body”)
Dr. Woodard’s book is Developing Your Supernatural Awareness: Connecting to an Interactive Universe. Each chapter closes with exercises to help you open up to these experiences, or make sense of ones you’ve already had.

📖 Get the book: Developing Your Supernatural Awareness: Connecting to an Interactive Universe (https://link.amazon/B04uyQ5Hb)

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My Angel Coach: Sue Elliott

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Chapters
00:00 Scores of invisible beings?
01:00 Meet Dr. Frederick Woodard
02:30 The two unborn grandchildren
03:45 The voice in the library and the land deeds
06:30 “It’s in the coin saver”
08:00 Two signs an experience is genuine
11:00 How he found his research subjects
12:30 Hypnosis, meditation and waking up
13:45 Who are the invisible beings?
15:00 The spirit box that said “impossible”
16:45 Common threads of supernatural experiences
19:30 Real experience or mental illness?
21:00 Are we nearing a tipping point?
23:00 Inside his book
25:00 Learning to quiet the mind
27:15 Can his book help you astral travel?
28:30 Why flexibility is everything
29:00 Great-grandma at the party
31:30 Where to get the book

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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What happens to consciousness when the brain goes completely offline? Neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander, author of Proof of Heaven, knows firsthand. A rare bacterial meningitis wiped out his neocortex and put him in a coma. During that time he went through three realms of an afterlife: a dark “earthworm’s eye view,” a radiant Gateway Valley where life reviews happen, and a Core realm of pure oneness with the divine.

He explains why his case challenges the idea that the brain creates consciousness, how music carried him between the levels, and what he believes finally pulled him back to this world.

If you’ve ever wondered what’s waiting on the other side, start here.

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This episode is sponsored by:
My Angel Coach: Sue Elliott

🎁 Free gift: Enjoy a FREE 8-minute audio called Soothing Energy from the Angels. No catch, no cost. Find it at myangelcoach.com/soothing

📖 Book + membership: myangelcoach.com

🌟 Join Sue’s membership community and get 50% off your first two months ($14.50/month for 2 months, then $29/month). Use code SKEPTIC50 at myangelcoach.com/podcast-community
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The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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Inner transformation often begins exactly where we least expect it; in grief. Brooklyn-born intuitive medium Deborah Hanlon has spent 25 years sitting with people in loss, and her take is nothing like what you’ve heard before. Grief isn’t reserved for death. It’s the emotion that breaks open everything...the life you thought you’d have, the relationship that ended, the job you lost...and under the right conditions, it’s the most powerful force for change you’ll ever face. 

Deborah also shares an exclusive story she’s never told publicly: what happened when Pope Francis showed up uninvited during her trip to Rome and sent her proof she couldn’t ignore.

Plus: why cardinals aren’t a universal sign from your loved ones, what the deceased actually experience after crossing, and why “just get over it” might be the worst grief advice ever given. 

Deborah’s links:
Website: deborahhanlon.com
Instagram: @deborahmhanlon
📖 Reassembling Yourself: Turning Grief into Growth | deborahhanlon.com (https://link.amazon/B0c9hVXlI)

Resources Mentioned:
In the Presence of Proof: A Medium’s View of the Afterlife and How to Create Heaven on Earth — Deborah Hanlon (her first book) (https://link.amazon/B0hUxsnkR)

Illusions — Richard Bach (https://link.amazon/B0agaPI9I)

On Death and Dying — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (https://link.amazon/B0eXB2bwe)

The Way of the Peaceful Warrior — Dan Millman (https://link.amazon/B01Hib32l)

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This episode is sponsored by:
My Angel Coach: Sue Elliott

🎁 Free gift: Enjoy a FREE 8-minute audio called Soothing Energy from the Angels. No catch, no cost. Find it at myangelcoach.com/soothing

📖 Book + membership: myangelcoach.com

🌟 Join Sue’s membership community and get 50% off your first two months ($14.50/month for 2 months, then $29/month). Use code SKEPTIC50 at myangelcoach.com/podcast-community
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The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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If you found this episode enlightening, mind-expanding, or even just thought-provoking (see what we did there?), please take a moment to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us bring more transformative guests and topics your way!

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For once, Karen isn’t the one asking the questions. In this special bonus episode, she sits down as a guest on Live from the Source with Alexander Dunlop and Viki Scudieri, and you’ll finally hear the stories she rarely tells on our own show.
 
Karen opens up about the vivid dreams that have shaped her path, including a voice in the darkness that whispered, “She’s not ready yet,” and a recurring vision of guiding people to the horizon that an artist later painted without ever hearing about it. She shares why she and Will created New Reality TV for the “covert mainstream,” the doctors, lawyers and accountants quietly exploring consciousness, plus one very strange synchronicity involving a missing bottle of creamer.
 
Alexander and Viki read Karen’s cards (she’s playing the Queen of Diamonds with an Ace of Diamonds personality), and the insights land surprisingly close to home: perfectionism, independence, trusting your gut, and the power of surrender over hustle. Karen also reflects on how a recent health challenge taught her to treat her body like a cherished pet, and why so many of us miss love simply because it doesn’t look the way we expected.
 
And if she could put one message on a billboard for the whole world to see? You’ll have to listen to find out.

Want to hear more from Alexander and Viki?
The full show lives at thesourcecards.com/podcast, with new episodes every Thursday.

You can also watch on New Reality TV at newrealitytv.com/live-from-the-source.  

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This episode is sponsored by:
My Angel Coach: Sue Elliott

🎁 Free gift: Enjoy a FREE 8-minute audio called Soothing Energy from the Angels. No catch, no cost. Find it at myangelcoach.com/soothing

📖 Book + membership: myangelcoach.com

🌟 Join Sue’s membership community and get 50% off your first two months ($14.50/month for 2 months, then $29/month). Use code SKEPTIC50 at myangelcoach.com/podcast-community
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The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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If you found this episode enlightening, mind-expanding, or even just thought-provoking (see what we did there?), please take a moment to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us bring more transformative guests and topics your way!

Connect with Us: 
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The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomena, quantum healing, and beyond. 

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

Subscribe, Rate & Review!
If you found this episode enlightening, mind-expanding, or even just thought-provoking (see what we did there?), please take a moment to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us bring more transformative guests and topics your way!

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